Screenshots? If your fonts don't look as good as in "after" screenshot then obviously you did something wrong . If they look exactly the same then use what YOU like best. I'm not saying my overlay will satisfy everyone - I did it because I liked the effect and tought some people might like it too. Patches from gentoo's bugzilla and mine are very likely to come from exactly the same source so I don't think this is the problem.

http://nosebleed.info/etc/screens/spr-screen.jpg -- maybe it is just a matter or personal taste... I'm also using autohinting here, and your after screen looked exactly like the sub-pixel rendering with autohinting DISABLED. However, even when I enabled autohinting on the xeffects builds, the fonts didn't look as good as mine do (i.e. check out some of the fonts, and the e for Bitstream Vera Sans at 10pt 96dpi)

Set everything like in point 5 of the guide and rm -rf ~/.fontconfig/
Maybe try to run firefox with: MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox (I don't think disabling pango will help, but it will not hurt to try )
Your fonts as provided in screenshot looks definetly different from my after screenshot and to me they look a lot worse ( e.g. check Autos link on the left - to me its almost not readable )._________________[HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors

Set everything like in point 5 of the guide and rm -rf ~/.fontconfig/
Maybe try to run firefox with: MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox (I don't think disabling pango will help, but it will not hurt to try )
Your fonts as provided in screenshot looks definetly different from my after screenshot and to me they look a lot worse ( e.g. check Autos link on the left - to me its almost not readable ).

Well, it's not just firefox, everything looks the same in every app. Also, my fonts get those annoying red marks around them in spr mode... which I can't stand. With the version I'm using they appear rarely, if at all...

And "Autos" probably looks like that because I don't have autohinting disabled for bold fonts, but it looks fine to ME. What do you think of the non-bolded fonts? Anyway, like I said, it's just a matter of taste, I guess.

Yes, you should stick with what your eyes are telling you is the best. YMMV
Non-bold fonts have too much grey/blue/whatever fringing to my taste. It is strange that you actually had to disable autohinting to get identical bold fonts as I have and you mention red artifacts... none of this is present in my setup so if you followed steps exactly as they are written, there is not much I can do to help you. And if you like your current config then there is no need to help at all. Just enjoy it

Yes, you should stick with what your eyes are telling you is the best. YMMV
Non-bold fonts have too much grey/blue/whatever fringing to my taste. It is strange that you actually had to disable autohinting to get identical bold fonts as I have and you mention red artifacts... none of this is present in my setup so if you followed steps exactly as they are written, there is not much I can do to help you. And if you like your current config then there is no need to help at all. Just enjoy it

As for latest news concerning ebuild starting from 26.11.2006 snapshot there is new use flag called demos. It installs testing programs from ft2demos when enabled.

Thanks, I just noticed that when I updated the overlay, I'm going to try it your way to see if it works better for me. Thanks.

EDIT: FYI, cairo 1.2.6 is out if you intend on updated that ebuild in your overlay

All packages (revelant to this topic) are ~arch, and freetype is M~arch. Unmask freetype in /etc/portage/package.unmask and, if you are using stable tree, set appropriate keywords for corresponding packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords (more details about how to use portage is found here). Also remember to add

Code:

source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

line at the end of your /etc/make.conf to make overlays added by layman visible to emerge.

deno wrote:

one more question. how to set smoothing mode to subpixel, hinting mode to medium or full and subpixel order to rgb?

Hm in KDE is no such option to set smoothing mode to subpixel, or at least I can't see it.

Yes there is, you have to look in your control center under "appearance" and "fonts" or something similar (I use german language and can't give you the exact translation, but it should be something like that). There you can enable it._________________SiberianSniper: my girlfriend's name ends with .c
Clete2: Uber geek! W00t! I'd rather have it end in .cpp... <insert name>.cpp
Dralnu: ...why not <name>.o? Then she's ready for linking...
SiberianSniper: or <name>.ko, so she's ready for insertion?